Miner s lamp



(No Model.)

J. L. MORRIS.

MINERS LAMP.

Nd. 373,244. Patented Nov. 15. 1887.

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. MORRIS, OF MIDDLEPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

M INERS LAM P.

SPECIPICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No.373,244, dated November15 1887.

(No model.)

To-aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. MoRRIs, of Middleport, in the county ofSchuylkill and State of Pennsylvaniauhave invented a new andImprovedMiners Lamp, of which the following is a specification,reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, inwhich Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of my improvedlamp. Fig. 2 is a rear view. 1 Similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both figures of the drawings.

In miners lamps as now constructed the one hook employed fails to steadythe lamp on the hat, but allows it to swing sidewise, bringing the blazeclose to the hat, and when the miner is walking the blaze is fannedagainst the hat, setting fire to'the same. With one hook, also. thelamp, instead of hanging in a level position, is allowed to tilt or leanforward, so that the outer end of the wick-tube is below the level ofthe oil in the lamp. The oil therefore burns much more rapidly than whenfed to the blaze only by the capillary act-ion of the wick, and unlessthe latter is very tight in the wick-tube the oil will flow out and downthe miners face.

To steady the lamp in its position on the hat I provide the lamp A withtwo hooks, preferably formed of a single piece of wire, F, doubled orreturned upon itself, and offset to fit it to the conical top B of thelamp-body. The upper extremities of the wire are curved overfin the samedirection away from the body of the lamp and bent downward parallel withthe axis of the same, and provided with points I) for entering theminers hat. To facilitate the insertion of the lamp in the hat I formone point 1; longer than the other, so that by inserting the longer onein its socket in the.

tends above the top of the lamp-body.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is V The combination, with the lamp, of thedouble hook formed of a doubled or looped wire having its ends bent overinto outwardlyprojecting beaks or points, one of which is longer thanthe other, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN L. MORRIS.

Witnesses:

Runs 1?. DANIELS, EDWARD '1. BEADBURY.

